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BOATS OF THE WORLD: FROM THE STONE AGE TO MEDIEVAL TIMES

by Sean McGrail

Published by Oxford University Press. 1st thus. 2004

Very good condition. A history of water transport as it has developed over millennia, from before 40,000 BC to the mid-second millennium AD. Blue cardwraps. 480 pages including index. B/w photos and diagrams.

Corners lightly rubbed. Vertical crease to spine. Orange mark to top edge of text block. Text block lightly browned. Contents clean.

ISBN: 0199271860
Stock no. 1827808

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Contents

  • List of Illustrations
  • List of Tables
  • Abbreviations
  • Conventions used in the text
  • 1. SOURCES AND THEMES
  • 1.1 Maritime archaeology and boat archaeology
  • 1.2 Sources of evidence
  • 1.3 The reconstruction and interpretation of excavated vessels
  • 1.4 Concepts behind some of the arguments in this study
  • 1.5 Presentation of the evidence
  • 2. EGYPT
  • 2.1 The Delta
  • 2.2 Egypt's natural resources
  • 2.3 Seafaring
  • 2.4 The pre-Pharaonic period (c.13,000-3100 BC)
  • 2.5 Non-plank craft throughout Pharanoic times
  • 2.6 Planked craft of the Early Dynastic Period (c.3100-2866 BC)
  • 2.7 Planked boats and ships of the Old Kingdom (c.2686-2160 BC)
  • 2.8 Planked vessels of the Middle Kingdom (c.2133-1786 BC)
  • 2.9 Planked vessels of the New Kingdom (c.1567-1085 BC)
  • 2.10 The Late Dynastic Period (1085-332 BC)
  • 2.11 Graeco-Roman times
  • 3. ARABIA
  • 3.1 Overseas trade
  • 3.2 Water transport before the third millennium BC
  • 3.3 The third millennium BC
  • 3.4 Water transport in the second and first millennia BC
  • 3.5 Propulsion and steering in early Mesopotamia
  • 3.6 Sewn-plank boats of the first and second millennia AD
  • 3.7 Harbours and trade routes in the first century AD
  • 3.8 Seafaring
  • 4. THE MEDITERRANEAN
  • 4.1 Reconstructing past sea levels and climates
  • 4.2 Environmental conditions
  • 4.3 Overseas passages
  • 4.4 Exploration and navigation
  • 4.5 Water transport before the Bronze Age (before c.3800 BC)
  • 4.6 The Early Bronze Age (c3800-2000 BC)
  • 4.7 The Middle Bronze Age (c.2000-1500 BC)
  • 4.8 The Late Bronze Age (c.1550-1100 BC)
  • 4.9 The Early Iron Age (c.1100-550 BC)
  • 4.10 The trireme of the seventh-fourth centuries BC
  • 4.11 Shipbuilding before the third century BC
  • 4.12 The Hellenistic Age (fourth -first centuries BC)
  • 4.13 The Roman Age (mid-second century BC - fourth century AD)
  • 4.14 Propulsion, steering and seafaring
  • 4.15 Early frame-first vessels
  • 4.16 Design of the medieval frame-first ships
  • 5. ATLANTIC EUROPE
  • 5.1 The early environment
  • 5.2 Early seafaring
  • 5.3 Water transport before the Bronze Age
  • 5.4 Bronze and Iron Age plank boats
  • 5.5 Vessels build Mediterranean fashion
  • 5.6 Romano-Celtic boats and ships
  • 5.7 Boats and ships of the first millennium AD
  • 5.8 Medieval vessels (eleventh-fourteenth centuries)
  • 5.9 Late medieval ships
  • 5.10 Atlantic seafaring
  • 6. INDIA
  • 6.1 The Neolithic and Bronze Ages
  • 6.2 The Iron Age
  • 6.3 Graeco-Roman trade with India
  • 6.4 Seafaring in the Bay of Bengal (first-eigth centuries AD)
  • 6.5 Medieval European contacts with India
  • 6.6 Early Indian water transport
  • 6.7 Planked boats and ships up to the twentieth century
  • 6.8 Medieval and later navigational techniques
  • 7. GREATER AUSTRALIA
  • 7.1 The early environment
  • 7.2 The settlement of Greater Australia
  • 7.3 Water transport
  • 7.4 Early prehistoric water transport
  • 8. SOUT-EAST ASIA
  • 8.1 Early population movements
  • 8.2 Early maritime contacts
  • 8.3 Water transport
  • 9. OCEANIA
  • 9.1 The Oceanic migration
  • 9.2 Evidence for Oceanic water transport
  • 9.3 Water transport
  • 9.4 Early ocean-going boats
  • 9.5 Navigation
  • 10. CHINA
  • 10.1 The environmental background
  • 10.2 Early water transport
  • 10.3 Early inland waterways
  • 10.4 Seagoing vessels
  • 10.5 Characteristics of the excavated ships
  • 10.6 Documentary evidence
  • 10.7 The Chinese shipbuilding tradition
  • 10.8 Other plank-boat traditions
  • 10.9 Boat and shipbuilding sites
  • 10.10 China and the world overseas
  • 10.11 Pilotage and navigation
  • 11. THE AMERICAS
  • 11.1 The earliest settlement
  • 11.2 Later settlements
  • 11.3 European settlements in fifteenth-eighteenth centuries
  • 11.4 Water transport
  • 11.5 America's earliest water transport
  • 12. EARLY WATER TRANSPORT
  • 12.1 The state of research
  • 12.2 Inter-regional comparisions
  • 12.3 Boat and ship archaeology
  • Bibliography
  • Glossary
  • Index

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